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Operation Family Secrets: How a Mobster's Son and the FBI Brought Down Chicago's Murderous Crime Family
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Include books by the same authorFor the Sins of My Father: A Mafia Killer, His Son, and the Legacy of a Mob Life
Albert Demeo, Mary Jane Ross · 288 pages
Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs
Charles Falco, Kerrie Droban · 253 pages
An account from an ex-con who went undercover to help the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms infiltrate three of America's most violent biker gangs.
Pablo Escobar: My Father
Juan Pablo Escobar · 368 pages
"THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER! When Pablo Escobar died in 1993, his seventeen-year-old son initially vowed revenge. But Juan Pablo quickly recognized that reaction entailed following in his father's footsteps--something neither he nor his father ever wanted. Their lives in immense danger, Juan Pablo, his mother, and his sister assumed new identities and fled to Argentina, where he would spend the
Our Story
Reggie Kray, Ronnie Kray, Fred Dinenage · 159 pages
Compiled from a series of interviews behind prison walls, 'Our Story' is the book that finally explodes the myths that have surrounded the Kray twins.
"I Heard You Paint Houses": Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa
Charles Brandt · 320 pages
"I heard you paint houses" are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than twenty-five hits for the mob, and for his friend Hoffa. Sheeran learned t
Donnie Brasco
Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley · 413 pages
Gomorrah: A Personal Journey Into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
Roberto Saviano · 301 pages
A major bestseller in Italy, this is a heroic young man's impassioned account of the decline of Naples under the rule of the Camorra, an organized crime network with a large international reach and stakes in construction, high fashion, illicit drugs, and toxic-waste disposal. Known by insiders as "the System," the Camorra affects cities and villages along the Neapolitan coast, and is the deciding
Mr. Nice
Howard Marks · 466 pages
THE BOOK: During the mid 1980's Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world. Whether bars, recording studios or offshore banks, all were money laundering vehicles serving the core activity: dope dealingMarks began to deal small amounts of hashish while doing a postgraduate philosopy course at Oxford and soon he was moving much
Shot in the Heart
Mikal Gilmore · 403 pages
Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer immortalized by Norman Mailer in The Executioner's Song, campaigned for his own death and was executed by firing squad in 1977. Writer Mikal Gilmore is his younger brother. In Shot in the Heart, he tells the stunning story of their wildly dysfunctional family: their mother, a blacksheep daughter of unforgiving Mormon farmers; their father, a drunk, thief, a
My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King
Reymundo Sanchez · 299 pages
Autobiographical account of the early life of a member of the Latin Kings of Chicago.
Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir
Stanley Tookie Williams · 400 pages
Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
Bryan Burrough · 624 pages
In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoovers FBI to tell the full storyfor the first timeof the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and the assortment of criminals who became national icons: John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty
El Sicario: Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man. Edited by Molly Molloy and Charles Bowden
Molly Molloy, Charles Bowden
Mafia Queens Of Mumbai: Stories Of Women From The Ganglands
Hussain S. Zaidi, Jane Borges · 290 pages
The Iceman: The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer
Anthony Bruno · 292 pages
A mob contract killer known as "The Iceman" for hiding a body in an ice-cream truck freezer, Richard Kuklinski boasted a personal body count of more than a hundred victims. The family man from New Jersey killed for fun, money, to cover up his own crimes, and to satisfy his inner rage. Law enforcement officials could not get near Kuklinski until undercover agent Dominick Polifrone posed as a mobste
Rat Bastards: The Life and Times of South Boston's Most Honorable Irish Mobster
John "Red" Shea · 312 pages
The man who has remained silent for more than a decade finally speaks, revealing the gritty true story of his life inside the infamous South Boston Irish mob led by the elusive, Machiavellian kingpin Whitey Bulger, who to this day remains on the lam as one of the world's Ten Most Wanted criminals, second only to Osama bin Laden ...
A Safe Place: The True Story of a Father, a Son, a Murder
Lorenzo Carcaterra · 328 pages
The true story of the shocking events preceding Sleepers'IT'S TIME YOU KNEW THE TRUTH, ' 'ABOUT YOUR FATHER. ' 'WHAT ABOUT HIM?' 'HIS FIRST WIFE, ' SHE SAID. 'SHE DIDN'T DIE OF CANCER. ' 'HOW DID SHE DIE?' 'HE MURDERED HER. ' At the age of fourteen Lorenzo Carcaterra made a shocking discovery. Behind closed doors he and his mother survived the erratic, violent outbursts of his father. A powerful m
At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel
William C. Rempel · 357 pages
Traces the collaborative effort between two U.S. agents and a security chief for a notorious Colombian drug cartel to dismantle the organization and bring its leaders to justice, a life-risking venture marked by a race to protect the life of a key witness.